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From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Filtering the source/binaries without bottleneck
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Date: 10 Jan 89 00:24:09 GMT
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In article <3054@haven.umd.edu> louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>I don't think that Bob Page should have to test sumissions for 
>comp.sources.amiga before posting them.

Agreed.

>I don't care what you do with the binaries.  Personally, I don't run any
>binaries on my system from USENET or other non-commercial source.  You
>don't know *where* they've been.

The only other thing I believe a moderator should do is to make sure
that a program really comes from the person it claims to have come
from, and that that person is reachable.  That way if a program turns
out to have a virus or some other nasty, people can get their hands on
the perpetrator and throttle him or her.

Just compiling a program yourself is no guarantee that it doesn't do
something nasty.  Not unless you really read it cover to cover first.
It might not contain a virus, but it could do something like deleting a
random file somewhere.  That wouldn't take much code, so such a thing
could be concealed in a program without much trouble.  (God, I hope I
haven't given anyone any ideas!)

-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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